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Site Manager

2 months ago


Reading, United States AkzoNobel Full time

**Date**:May 17, 2024

**Location**: Reading, PA, US

**Company**:AkzoNobel

We’ve been pioneering a world of possibilities to bring surfaces to life for well over 200 years. As experts in making coatings, there’s a good chance you’re only ever a few meters away from one of our products. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and have set our sights on becoming the global industry leader. It’s what you’d expect from the most sustainable paints company, which has been inventing the future for more than two centuries.

**Job Purpose/Key Objectives**:

- Delivering on the strategy and achieving agreed targets
- Managing operations
- Ensuring safety and adhering to all regulations
- Continuously improving
- Leading, coaching and developing people
- Engaging stakeholders

**Responsibilities**:
Delivering on the strategy and achieving agreed targets
- Cascades the (business & ISC) (assets and demand plan) strategy to motivate the site organization effectively, ensures appropriate alignment of focus and ensures issues are fed back up
- Contributes to the formulation of business objectives from an operations perspective, ensures site capabilities, constraints and HSE considerations are incorporated into business planning.
- Plans, leads, organizes and controls the delivery (ready to serve) of the site’s contribution to business objectives and overall performance targets (in terms of safety, reliability, productivity. customer service, OTIF, inventory levels, cost, quality, material/eco-efficiency, capital, engagement and community stewardship).
- Manages and plans relevant (site/departmental) budget and proactively manages the costs (such as expense, labor, overhead), develops and manages the implementation of plant capital budget.

Managing operations
- Implements and operates ALPS (CI, strategic initiatives, standard processes, tools, training and organizational roles and responsibilities) for the site consistent with the agreed ISC functional excellence agenda
- Directs the overall activities of the manufacturing facilities of the plant to ensure customer orders are received, scheduled, produced and shipped at the lowest possible cost to meet the customers’ requirements while maintaining corporate established quality standards
- Develops annual manufacturing expense budget in accordance with forecasted sales volumes and planned inventory levels
- Customer service: produces and delivers on time in full, act as a liaison with Distribution, Sales and Customer Service to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction in helping to address customer inquiries, problems and concerns
- Production efficiency: manages production of one or more production units at the lowest possible cost,
- Ensuring (people and process) safety and adhering to all regulations
- Ensures that all the applicable company Directives, Rules, and Procedures as well as local site procedures with regard to personal conduct, HSE, and Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs (PSRA), including the Life Saving Rules, are adhered to, acts in compliance with all regulations, acts according to company policy and practices when issues arise and reinforces the minimum personal safety requirements
- Implements and operates the Safety Common Platform and identifies and responds effectively to hazards in HSE and security
- Involves all site employees in the design and delivery of the site Safety Improvement Plan (SIP) in line with the Safety Common Platform and integrates the SIP in the site’s overall plans so that resources are efficiently managed

Continuously improving
- Establishes, achieves, enforces, and continuously improves the performance levels for the site, using CI techniques, and provides feedback to BA/BU/CI/ALPS deployment teams on best practices and improvements in processes and tools
- Establishes a culture of functional and operational excellence, continuous improvement, accountability, professionalism, and commitment to company values and behaviors
- Analyzes plant operations to ensure that the facility maintains a leadership position in the industry and that it takes advantage of new processes and technologies that become available

**Job Requirements**:
Bachelor's or Master's Degree

Advanced English language skills

Leadership competencies:

- Develop people with new skills to add value & solve problems
- Go to Gemba to understand
- Create an inclusive environment by coaching, mentoring & celebrating success
- Set the site vision (BU, ALPS) & cascade performance goals
- Drive strategic and daily continuous improvement by using Visual Management
- Make your own commitment to safety visible every day
- Focus unrelenting on delivering results and improvements
- Implement and support standard processes
- Lead change

Functional competencies
- Broad and specialized knowledge in Operations and Supply


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